CINEMA, ASPIRIN AND VULTURES by Marcelo Gomes: Film Review
by Andre Soares
Cinema, Aspirina e Urubus / Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures (2006) 
Director: Marcelo Gomes. Screenplay: Marcelo Gomes, Karim Ainouz, and Paulo Caldas. Cast: Peter Ketnath, João Miguel
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Carefully directed by Marcelo Gomes; beautifully photographed by Mauro Pinheiro Jr.; tautly written by Gomes, Karim Ainouz, and Paulo Caldas; and extremely well acted by Peter Ketnath and João Miguel, Cinema, Aspirina e Urubus / Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures is a touching dramatic comedy about the grudging friendship that develops between a German immigrant/war refugee (Ketnath) and a Brazilian migrant peasant (Miguel) in Brazil’s arid Northeast in 1942.
Reviewed at the AFI FEST 2005
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